On Friday 11 November 2005 23:49, Keith Lelacheur wrote:
> Good evening sluggers,
>
> I finally got around to installing ubuntu on my new laptop (Presario r4000,
> Athlon 64, Ati radion 200m, yada, yada, yada). After a little tweaking got
> the video working and everything else works great with one exception, the
> wireless card. It is a broadcom based 802.11b/g chipset. I followed the
> setup instructions I found at this wiki:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HowToSetUpNdiswrapper
>
> and everthing seems to be workingbut I can never pull a dhcp address. Here
> is the output of the ifup wlan0 command:
>
> ___________________________________________________________________
>
> root@loki:/var/run# ifup wlan0
> There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid with pid 0
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2
> Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
>
> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
> Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:14:a5:10:72:b5
> Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:14:a5:10:72:b5
> Sending on Socket/fallback
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 <http://255.255.255.255> port 67
> interval 5
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 <http://255.255.255.255> port 67
> interval 9
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 <http://255.255.255.255> port 67
> interval 12
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 <http://255.255.255.255> port 67
> interval 20
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 <http://255.255.255.255> port 67
> interval 15
> No DHCPOFFERS received.
> No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
> root@loki:/var/run#
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--------
>
> for comparison, here is the output of the same command with the wired eth0
> interface:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--------------
>
> root@loki:/var/run# ifup eth0
> There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid with pid 0
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2
> Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
>
> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
> Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0f:b0:75:38:14
> Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0f:b0:75:38:14
> Sending on Socket/fallback
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 <http://255.255.255.255> port 67
> interval 8
> ip length 314 disagrees with bytes received 534.
> accepting packet with data after udp payload.
> DHCPOFFER from 192.168.0.1 <http://192.168.0.1>
> DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 <http://255.255.255.255> port 67
> DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 <http://255.255.255.255> port 67
> ip length 314 disagrees with bytes received 534.
> accepting packet with data after udp payload.
> DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1 <http://192.168.0.1>
> bound to 192.168.0.9 <http://192.168.0.9> -- renewal in 38584 seconds.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--------
>
> The wireless tool in KDE sees the ssid and has perfect signal strength. Ii
> can see the iiinterface and ifconfig shows an ipv6 address but I just can't
> seem too pull a DHCP address.
>
> Does anybody have any ideas?
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> Keith
Try iwlist wlan0 scan and then iwconfig wlan0 essid (whatever the essid is.)
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